gallantwarrior
Gold Member
I think it's critical that police forces mirror the community. When marchers raise their hands and chant "hands up! Don't shoot!" they are essentially demanding police personnel and tactics match the community in demographic make up as well as tactical response that is reasonable and responsible. Snipers training weapons on citizens is neither reasonable nor responsible.
Community standards must be respected if police departments are, indeed, there to serve and protect. When community standards are ignored in efforts to expedite that service and protection, the essential threads that bind a community to its police force are irreparably broken. That destroys the community trust in the police and tears the effectiveness of that police force from their charges.
So, white officers are incapable of upholding, respecting, and serving black community standards, or vis-versa?